Celebrating the Miracle: Worship Resources for Addictions Awareness Services has been designed to be used as an order of service either for Sunday morning or a special evening service. Feel free to use all or any parts of this worship resource as appropriate for your congregation.
Alcohol and Drug Awareness congregational resources.
This material can be used throughout the church. It is appropriate for all educational activities, Sunday school classes, workshops, study groups, women's groups, and men's groups. Suggested sermon themes, hymns and prayers are offered to help center a Service on Addiction Issues.
This book was developed in cooperation with The National Episcopal Coalition on Alcohol and Drugs, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Learn everything you need to know about your first day(s) at the Gathering. This issue of the almost-daily Gathering newspaper has information on what you should bring, leave at home and put on your schedule while you're in Minneapolis for the 2015 Churchwide Gathering, June 18–21.
In this issue of the Racial Ethnic Torch, we lift up women of color and continue celebrating the "Decade of Hearing and Singing New Songs to God" to recognize and celebrate the gifts of women of color in the church.
This agreement expresses the partnership in mission among Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Inc. (PW) and the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA). PW and the PMA have had a longstanding partnership based upon shared beliefs, and complementary visions and commitments, common history and a relationship of mutual respect and cooperation.
Children and youth are the heart of the annual Pentecost offering, and we encourage congregations to include their gifts as much as possible. We have included a few suggestions below:
Presbyterian Hunger Program newsletter from Spring 2015- Breaking Chains. Download the Climate and Food Center Spread.
Engage the Gospel, Discipleship, Your Community and Church Shifts
Engage is about effective evangelism that is part of a disciple making church culture that emphasizes both the importance of social justice and faith sharing. It begins with the Jesus question, “who do you say that I am?”
Those who attended the Multicultural Dinner and Celebration at Fort Street Presbyterian Church during the 221st General Assembly (2014) experienced a prophetic moment. The guest speaker, Dr. Rodger Nishioka, associate professor of Christian education at Columbia Theological Seminary, told those in multicultural and cross-cultural ministries that it is time to move on to the next stage toward becoming a more diverse and inclusive church: that of intercultural ministries.” In calling the church to intercultural ministries, he did not condemn the stages that preceded it—mainly multicultural and cross-cultural ministries. Instead, Nishioka celebrated each for playing timely roles as stepping stones to advancing …
Help share the wonderful story, Shanti Means Peace, which tells the wonderful story of the prayer worldwide prayer movement, the Fellowship of the Least Coin. This PDF contains songs, recipes, crafts and other resources to help children understand how this prayer movement started and what it means.